Hi I'v formatted an old external and was hoping to install a copy of Lion on it, but cannot run the Lion installer since I'm on ML. Is there any way around this? Reason being a family members macbook cannot run Mountain Lion and they have corrupted their hard drive..
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Mal, I appreciate the reply.
I have looked into locating the InstallESD.dmg file but it seems to be unavailable when running a current OS or higher. I'v also tried a free app: Lion Diskmaker 2.1 to receive an error, as again running ML may cause this..
I have looked into locating the InstallESD.dmg file but it seems to be unavailable when running a current OS or higher. I'v also tried a free app: Lion Diskmaker 2.1 to receive an error, as again running ML may cause this..
Is this possible?
Come the weekend I switch to an External drive with Snow Leopard running very nicely. But I have had an excessive amount of problems with Mountain Lion the day-to-day Internal drive, problems I never had with Lion.
During the weekend I noticed some 32GB Flash Drives go down to an Unreal price level. I'm talking about less than $20.00 from PNY.
So I'm suddenly wondering: Can I install Lion in a 32GB Flash Drive? There are many Apps I just don't use that often. Like Chess, Calender, Calculator and Contacts just to mention the C's. Deleting them would open up room and such.
Or should I get two 32GB Flash drives and RAID them into a 64GB Drive?
Or should I wait for the 64GB Drives to show up?
Come the weekend I switch to an External drive with Snow Leopard running very nicely. But I have had an excessive amount of problems with Mountain Lion the day-to-day Internal drive, problems I never had with Lion.
During the weekend I noticed some 32GB Flash Drives go down to an Unreal price level. I'm talking about less than $20.00 from PNY.
So I'm suddenly wondering: Can I install Lion in a 32GB Flash Drive? There are many Apps I just don't use that often. Like Chess, Calender, Calculator and Contacts just to mention the C's. Deleting them would open up room and such.
Or should I get two 32GB Flash drives and RAID them into a 64GB Drive?
Or should I wait for the 64GB Drives to show up?
Doesn't matter what OS you're running, if you have the installer. Just right click on the installer, select Show Package Contents, and navigate to the file from there.
jW